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C’mon man this is a joke right? We haven’t had wall to wall cold, but you aren’t gonna have 70”+ of snowfall around these parts with polar air suppression all winter long. 100% snow cover in DJF, much of it double digit depth. Multiple 12”+ storms, and had some days that stayed below zero. It’s been a weird ice fishing season with deep snowpack that insulated the lakes early and kept ice from getting as thick as years past, but there’s still plenty of ice houses out there. This is an A+ winter, I work outside so I can do without the punishing cold we usually get.

Solid moderate snow in Cambridge MN. 2” down, less then an inch of slop in Minneapolis.

Oh the southern edge of the snow band this morning. Picking up a wet sloppy inch. My job site up in Cambridge MN will pick up 3-4” today. March comes in like a lion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Winter_of_1880-81

Today I learned that even nerdy weather boards have weirdos. (Besides the nerd stuff) Great to have ya back @Stebo

2nd wettest meteorological winter on record. Going to be interesting to see how this translates to spring flooding. It’s been a heck of a winter, however 1st place is on a whole different planet.

Just remember cut model output qpf by 30%. It’s been this winters trend.

Looks like they’ve been posted, kinda surprised Hennepin and Ramsey counties were included, I’d have gone a county north but they probably want to hammer the message to the core of the metro.

At this point in the year we need to start stat padding to keep our snowpack from decaying.

Minneapolis received 0.47” of precipitation today. Glad this one trending down.

Everyone smoke a bowl and calm down.

0.16” of ice accumulation was recorded at the airport in the heart of the metro. Wasn’t expecting anything.

Confirmed. Walked the dog, sidewalks are a skating rink and the trees have a light glaze. Edit: Airport temp dropped from 34 to 30. Didn’t think we’d get dynamic cooling.

Light rain and 33 degrees this morning, we might pick up a light glaze before the sun comes up. Gotta turn that fresh snow into new glacier to add to our existing one I guess.

I’ll take number 30

Whatever the models are showing knock 30-40% off the qpf.

Solid front door sunset.

Gonna be on the far NW side of a deep low in February and it’s still gonna rain. Weird year.

0.3” of fluff overnight bringing the seasonal total to 71.0” with a low of 3 this morning.

I don’t know how much of an impact it has, or the validity, but I’ve heard urban areas create low level dry air and it take longer for storms to saturate the air column as a result. If that’s incorrect someone please correct me.

Upslope enhanced snowfall from north winds going up the Minnesota river valley bluffs?

This is an A+ winter anyway you slice it.

Pretty broad area of 12”+

Thanks for the memory refresh. I remember now.